[lbo-talk] Neoliberalism's War on US Veterans

[dredmond at efn.org]

I was just watching a play-through of the latest "Call of Duty" videogame,
which was a pleasant surprise (basically, it follows in Metal Gear Solid
4's footsteps, and pulls the rug from underneath the Terror War), when I
noticed this story from the fine folks at PNHP:

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/november/over_2200_veterans_.php
"Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance: Harvard
researchers say 1.46 million working-age vets lacked health coverage last
year, increasing their death rate"

It's one of the contradictions of this age that a shooter videogame, from
a genre often condemned as being flippant towards human life, should be
one of the few North American media productions which honestly
acknowledges the madness and futility of war.

-- DRR